economy, a mistake for global competitiveness, to slow down. i'm convinced the agency has the authority it would need to address issues around promoting brayed band issues going forward. driving investment, driving motivation. >> did you feel like congress was your partner? >> i did. the transformation of the universal service fund was a good example. it is a good example of how pipe -- bipartisan things can get done in washington. i'm proud of the work that rob and i did at the commission on it. and we worked very well with congress, both democrats and republicans in a good back-and-forth dialogue to get that done. i think our relationship with congress was a healthy one. we didn't agree on everything. but debates were on the merits. listen, in our system, debate, argumentation is good. it leads to getter analysis and better outcome. >> let me say something about bipartisanship. under julius' leadership in the commission, if you disagreed with him, he didn't hold a grudge and we got on with the commission. that's the way it should be, and that